April Fools

I just saw on Fox 8 news this morning a Japanese engineer invented a device that fits into your ear that controls your ipod with your face. Correct, your face.

The inventor, Kazuhiro Taniguchi of Osaka University, says that his device, the Mimi Switch or Ear Switch, you can turn on and off your ipod by sticking out your tongue, can advance it foward by opening your eyes wide and go back one song by winking your right eye.

With this news story, there was video showing the device being controled by these movements. And frankly, it looked ridiculous.

Okay, now listen up people. It is bad enough that you i-tards walk around in public with your head buried in your little portable devices. The same little electronic devices that are ironically bringing our society's social existence to a halt. I firmly believe that in the near future people will be murdered on city streets in the full light of mid-day and no one will even know because they will have their i-buds in their ears and their "eyes" on their text messages. But now we have a device hitting the market that will make you look like a flirtatious cat person with digestive problems.

The cat person aspect is the on and off of the device. I see my cats do this when chorking up a hair ball, the tongue comes way out as they hurl. The flirtatiousness is from the winking. If anyone is actually looking around they will see you winking at them while going back one song. Careful their bubba, you just winked at an old church lady that hasn't been amorous since the Reagan administration. And the intestinal problem? Well I know for a fact that my eyes open wide when that three alarm chili finally hits the lower intestines.

Please Fox 8, please tell me this is all an April Fools Day ploy. Please tell me this will be a simple silly facination and will never really take hold. Then again, kids have been wearing their pants off their asses going on almost 20 years now. Who would have thought that fad would have lasted this long.